Phosphodiesterase-5 Inhibition Mimics Intermittent Reoxygenation and Improves Cardioprotection in the Hypoxic Myocardium

• Giuseppina Milano ,

  * E-mail: giuseppina.milano@chuv.ch

  Affiliations Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland, Laboratorio di Biologia Vascolare e Medicina Regenerativa, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCSS, Milan, Italy

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• Paola Bianciardi,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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• Viviane Rochemont,

  Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Giuseppe Vassalli,

  Affiliations Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland, Cardiology, Fondazione Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland

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• Ludwig K. von Segesser,

  Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Antonio F. Corno,

  Affiliation Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Prince Salman Heart Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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• Marco Guazzi,

  Affiliation Laboratorio di Biologia Vascolare e Medicina Regenerativa, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCSS, Milan, Italy

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• Michele Samaja

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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